By Chris Lang If you have been the victim of a scam, your name will be on a list to be cold called – and scammed – again. These “sucker lists” include names, addresses, phone number and background information about the person scammed. They are traded between boiler room operations, because scammers know that people…
Grayson Wealth Management and Carpathian Forestry are running a recovery room scam
A company called Grayson Wealth Management is cold calling people who have been scammed into buying carbon credits. Grayson Wealth Management’s telemarketers offer them a way of getting rid of their carbon credits. It’s a scam, of course.
Sustain:Green’s biodegradable credit card, Nike’s “Air” shoes, and the carbon credits that no one wants to buy
By Chris Lang “Credit cards that help the planet.” That’s the sales pitch from a company called Sustain:Green. With the company’s new biodegradable credit card you can “Fight climate change”, “Fund rainforest preservation”, and “Reduce your carbon footprint”.
Ryan Mellor, Sales Director, RMT Direct Ltd: “I am not a co-director of Ecopush or at any time had any involvement with this company”
EcoPush, the Gibraltar-based company offering “investments” in carbon trading, biofuels, agricultural commodities and sustainable timber, has disappeared. REDD-Monitor wrote about the company in June 2013.
Indonesia: President Jokowi extends the moratorium and announces a 4.6 million hectare land grab
Last week, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo agreed to extend the country’s moratorium on new forestry concessions. Also last week, Jokowi visited Papua and relaunched the disastrous Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE).